Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
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"James the Fourth" appeared in print in 1598 under the title "The Scottish Historie of James the Fourth, slaine at Flodden, intermisted with a pleasant Comedie &c." Of this dram...
4. Chapter 4What is literary imitation? Did Dante imitate Virgil because Virgil's ghost was the guide through the "Inferno"? Did Milton imitate Dante in "Paradise Lost" because he describes...
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5. Chapter 5Professor Thorndike expressly admits that of the six plays which are claimed as "romances," "A King and No King" "is the only one acted before 1612 the year of whose production...
2. Chapter 2Malone's first assumption was therefore without foundation. Even Collier only claims that "it is _plausibly conjectured_" that Shakspere did not write the "First Part of Henry V...
6. Chapter 6Let us answer both Teacher and Pupil. Suppose, to follow the Thorndike method, that "Cymbeline" appeared before "Philaster," that six romances by Beaumont and Fletcher followed...